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Definition of biosphere in English:

biosphere

noun

1The regions of the surface and atmosphere of the earth or another planet occupied by living organisms.

‘The totality of living organisms is the biosphere, although this term is also used to denote the environment inhabited by living organisms.’

‘As a science, ecology describes the interrelationships between organisms and environments - that is, the experience of living together in the biosphere.’

‘The second reason is that it's the mixing place between the biosphere and the atmosphere.’

‘Human activities have dramatically altered the Earth's biosphere and atmosphere during the past few hundred years.’

‘He touches on the lives of many scientists, some famous and some forgotten, who have studied the earth and the biospheres of Indonesia.’

‘He looked at this problem of living processes in the biosphere from that standpoint.’

‘The idea of bringing physical samples of Mars back to Earth has raised serious concerns about the possibility of contaminating the Earth's biosphere with an unknown Martian organism.’

‘If we catch it, the potential to expand the biosphere beyond Earth to the rim of the solar system and beyond can be realized.’

‘And therefore, humanity, which comes into the picture with cognition, depends upon this living part of the planet, the so-called biosphere.’

‘Of course, it was snuffed out because Mars is tectonically dead, so the recycling of chemicals that you get on Earth which keeps things going and supplies the surface biosphere would have actually ceased on Mars a lot earlier.’

‘So man is now changing the planet, for the better, just as living processes improved the planet, so man by acting on the biosphere improves the planet.’

‘Even most of earth is lifeless once you get past the thin film of the biosphere on the surface.’

‘Oxygen is one of several vital elements that are constantly consumed and recycled by processes involving the biosphere, the Earth's rocks and volcanoes, and the oceans.’

‘The storage of sulfur in the various compartments of Earth and its biosphere, and the many transfers occurring among them, is referred to as the sulfur cycle.’

‘Another major biological feature often considered as organized hierarchically is the pattern of distribution and association of organisms in the biosphere.’

‘However, forest fires are well-known, important mechanisms for exchanging elements between the biosphere and the atmosphere.’

‘The system of universes could be even more intricate and complex than the biosphere of our planet.’

‘This is a long, long way from saying that this galaxy is full of planets with biospheres even remotely comparable to ours.’

‘He demonstrated, for example, that the atmosphere, the oceans, and most of the area on which we live on the surface of the Earth, is a biosphere.’

‘In certain areas, mankind is presently consuming these mineral resources more rapidly than they are being transmitted from the interior of the planet to the biosphere.’

‘the elliptical domed biosphere is the largest single-span glasshouse in the world’

‘The second were generation ships, which had self-contained biospheres where the crew was not in stasis pods, but alive.’

‘But biosphere is also the name of a man-made and sealed environment, which simulates the earth's biosphere.’

‘Conventional futurist wisdom suggests that if our atmosphere should completely go to pot  which it certainly appears to be doing  humans could still eek out an existence living in self-sustaining biospheres.’

‘In Arizona, scientists built an artificial biosphere, called Biosphere 2.’

‘Living outside the biosphere are mostly transmigrants and the indigenous people that capitalists from the city often hire to fell trees in the forest.’